Hiroshi Hayakawa expresses his vision in various artistic mediums including drawings, alternative photography, and sculptures. Recently his focus has been graphite and mixed media drawings.
Nicolas Bruno studied at Purchase College of New York, where he received his BFA in Photography in 2015. His studio practice is based in Northport, New York, where he photographs and fabricates props for his compositions. Bruno exhibits his artworks internationally and engages in public speaking events to spread awareness of Sleep Paralysis. He also engages with local and international school districts to inspire young students to use art as a therapy. Bruno has been featured in various video documentaries that offer a behind the scenes look at his creative process. Bruno is an advocate for environmental conservation, art education, and mental health awareness.
Annie Stegg Gerard is an oil painter who lives in Northern Georgia in the United States. Her art career began at 7 years old, when she had first art show at her school. Since then, she has never stopped painting and has worked for clients across the world. She exhibits her work in galleries and has done notable publishing work for clients such as Disney, Hasbro, Wizards of the Coast, Easton Press, Netflix, Harper Collins and more. Her work is found in private collections all over the world.
Saskia Huitema (1975) is a self taught Dutch acrylic painter who lives in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Her passion for painting started at a later stage in life and her art has evolved ever since. Saskia’s work is recognizable by the use of color, crisp details, and narrative content. Saskia has exhibited her paintings at galleries, museums and other venues since 2015. In 2020 she started creating work for @78 Tarot and joined the international Star Dust Art Collective. Her paintings have been adopted by collectors both nationally and internationally.
From an artistic interest spurred through Life Drawing sessions, Liz Gridley's work centers on her emotional experiences of the human body, internal stresses, and how a painted human subject can affect the emotional state of the viewer. In Liz Gridley’s most recent work she has been utilizing female figures accosted by fantastical cloudscapes that envelope and interact with the figure. Influenced by realism with surreal colour, the pieces often analyze traditional themes from history and religion such as Allegories and Memento Mori.
Sandra Yagi was raised in suburban Denver Colorado, (USA) and from an early age she loved science (especially biology) and drawing. Her parents instilled in me an ethic of getting a “useful” education because of their concern for monetary and domestic stability—a result of their internment with other Japanese-Americans during WWII and their desire for their children to assimilate. As a result, Sandra’s studies focused on business, she obtained a Masters in Business Administration, and worked in the corporate world for 27 years at major financial institutions. Sandra left corporate life behind in 2008 and became a full-time artist. With a viewpoint rooted in logic and science, and a curiosity for the macabre, Sandra Yagi explores themes such as mortality, human experience and our impact on the natural world.
Lesley Thiel is an international award winning, figurative artist known for her highly detailed surrealistic and photorealistic paintings. Working in oils, she focuses on highly symbolic narrative pieces designed to tell a story of our relationship with the earth and the future of our species. Lesley Thiel’s work explores our connection to, and dependence upon, Mother Earth and nature. She paints the young women she sees as our future leaders and saviours into organic forms that grow out of trees, rocks, and plants.
Karen Remsen is a Chicago-based artist creating paintings with oil and precious metals such as gold and platinum leaf. Her work centers on exploring the multifaceted nature of female power and identity. Combining paint with reflective materials, her work also explores the beauty and complexity of light as it moves over a surface and changes throughout the day. She has exhibited across the country in galleries that champion imaginative realism and contemporary figurative work.
Katie O’Sullivan is a contemporary figurative painter and ceramic sculptor.
Katie has always been drawn to the artistry of the human form. Portrayed in many different styles and mediums, it has been the central part of her paintings and sculptures throughout her career. Her work focuses on narrative and storytelling, with each new body of work giving her the opportunity to explore new ways to reimagine the human figure.
E. E. Kono is a Los Angeles and Iowa-based artist. In her work, she explores the fluidity of culture and time. She employs a visual language that reflects her investigation into the connections between stories, symbols, and archetypes; across cultures and to the natural world. Her practice favours a slow, meditative process using natural materials chosen for their layered significance.
An award-winning artist known for her colorful and whimsical portraits of animals, Gina Matarazzo aims to show the viewer a magical way of looking at ordinary things. Through their point of view, she tries to reveal truths on how to be more genuine like animals are and be in tune with the things that matter the most in life. Her work is meant to distract the beholder from the difficulties that the world presents to them, promote peace and joy, and to remind the viewer how there is beauty available to them if only they stop for a moment and take notice.
Noah Norrid is a self-taught artist based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Having been an English and Design teacher for more than 20 years, ton-Emil? (Do You Dare, Anton-Emil?) His current body of work is the culmination of both his extensive interests in natural history, literature, mythological and religious symbolism as well as his near pathological interest in painting with watercolor and obsessing about details. Particularly the details that bring his subjects to life.